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Terminus omen

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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · temples, shrines, and sacred places · temple of jupiter · tarpeian mount · peace with aequi · omens, portents, and signs

Usually: narrative (1) · wonder (1)

Roman History, Books I-III primary

Titus Livius (Livy) · c. 30–17 CE; composed over more than forty years (extant Books I–III are within this span)
BOOK I > BOOK I[1] (55/63)

After taking Gabii, Tarquin makes peace with the Aequi and renews treaties with the Etruscans, then starts the Temple of Jupiter on the Tarpeian Mount using omens like Terminus’s stability and a miraculous found head.

gain the sense of public calamities became extinguished, till the state of Gabii, destitute of counsel and assistance, surrendered itself without a struggle into the power of the Roman king. Tarquin, having thus gained possession of Gabii, made peace with the nation of the Aequi, and renewed the treaty with the Etruscans. He next turned his attention to the affairs of the city. The chief of these was that of leaving…